Plllleeeeeaaaaaaase… someone fill me in. I missed it. I didn’t know I was going to be gone long enough to be missing it, so I didn’t get a tape ready before I left this afternoon.
Help!!!
I am so refraining from using all of the expletives bouncing off of the walls of my brain… grrr…
The aliens invaded and killed everybody. The end.
OK, OK, just funning around.
This’ll be a little jumbled, but then again, I wasn’t necessarily expecting to write about it.
In the opening, a guy jumps the White House fence and is restrained by a bunch of troops before he can get inside. What he wanted to give to the President was a disk labeled “Fight The Future.” Much later in the episode, we discover that “Fight The Future” is a password leading to a secret government database of people who have a certain genetic profile and have been targeted for kidnapping and replacement by alien baddies. Mulder, with the help of the Lone Gunmen, tries to upload this to the newspapers and the world, but is unsuccessful.
Absalom the prophet breaks out of a prison work detail and forces Doggett to try to help him break into the census computers. Absalom is shot by guards.
The guy who jumped the White House fence, we learn, was part of Absalom’s UFO cult.
Doggett and Mulder finally meet. Mulder thinks Doggett is out to get him.
Kersh wants to deny Mulder’s reinstatement to the X-Files.
Right at the end of the episode, we discover that the guy that Doggett goes to for secret information – like the “Fight The Future” password – has been replaced. We see it because the back of his neck has some bulgy thingie on it.
http://www.thexfiles.com/episodes/season8/8x16.html
Ah, poo. It seems they have yet to post the lengthy epi description for this one. They should have it up real soon, though, maybe later Monday morning.
Oh, by the way, there won’t be any new episodes until the 22nd. It should lead right into the final five shows of the season.
Do you think Doggett’s contact has been replaced, Snooooopy, or has he been an alien for as long as we’ve known him? I never did trust him
Last night featured a prime example of how under-written and sketchy the show is these days. Scully takes Mulder back to his apartment: Apartment 42 in whatever-the-hell-DC-neighborhood Mulder lives in (mini-hijack: Scully lives in Georgetown, right?). Inside we see everything just as Mulder left it, even down to his lighted aquarium, aerator busily gurgling away. Mulder observes the place is cleaner than he remembered, and one of his fish has died, but otherwise it’s just like he remembered.
Um, Scully, Mulder was dead. For THREE MONTHS. Why was the rent maintained on the apartment? Why wasn’t his furniture given to the Salvation Army, his personal effects divided between Scully and Skinner, his porn collection handed over to the Lone Gunmen?
All it would’ve taken was one line from Scully: “I just couldn’t cope with your death, so I kept up the rent” or something like that. So simple, and instead they just ignored it.
It drives me crazy.
I guess I should contribute to pay back for being in this same situation last week.
Basically, this whole week was used to cast suspicion on Doggett. The FBI big shots are busy trying to get Mulder off the X-Files, leaving them completely under Doggett’s control once Scully goes on maternity.
Meanwhile, Absalom escapes after reading about the census worker who got shot on the White House lawn. Turns out that the census worker was one of Ab’s disciples once upon a time. Ab takes Doggett hostage to break into the cenus building and show him the data that was on the disk. This data, we eventually find out, shows that the Census has been used to trace US citizens that are genetically capable of being replaced by alien duplicates - though it also turns out that this data was probably faked for nefarious purposes. Anyhoo, jack-booted thugs follow Ab and Doggett inside and shoot Ab. Doggett feels like he’s being used and says so to his mystery man that apparently has been feeding him info for years.
Mulder and Scully, meanwhile, get ahold of census worker’s hard drive, which has encrypted data on it - they need a password to get to it, and, conveniently, even with the password, they’d have to break into the same building to access the data. Firewalls sprang up after the census guy was shot. Mystery man gives Doggett the password - “Fight the future” - which was also on census guy’s CD that he was carrying when he was shot. Mulder breaks in to the census place, accesses the data, and begins emailing it out to everyone he can think of. Doggett realizes he’s been used to set up Mulder, and he’s about to get killed like Absalom was. So he catches up to Mulder and they escape just ahead of the jack-booted thugs, after realizing that the emails have been blocked - it was indeed a set up after all.
Doggett confronts his mystery man, who uses double talk to make himself look innocent, as usual. We then discover that mystery man is an alien - he has a couple of lumps on the back of his neck. So now everyone is suspicious of Doggett for his involvement in the setup. That’s really what it boils down to.
Hmm. Never gave it much thought. Probably been an alien since we’ve known him.
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Funny I should read this just as I’m watching an old episode of “The Crow: Stairway To Heaven.” The plot of the series is thus: Musician Eric Draven is murdered, but is resurrected to get back at the bad guys.
Once he is resurrected, of course, he returns to his old apartment. Why is it that he never walks in one day and discovers that someone has moved in? The landlord does indeed address this in one episode: Apparently the murder creeped everyone out and no one wants to rent it.